`Docile Oriental Women' and Organised Labour: A Case Study of the Indian Garment Manufacturing Industry

This article attempts to understand women's labour market behaviour in the context of export-oriented garment manufacturing in India, particularly women's decision to work and their alleged aversion to unionism. Asian women's submissiveness in the labour market can hardly be the resul...

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Main Author: Deepita Chakravarty
Format: Printed Book
Published: Indian Journal of Gender Studies 2007; 14; 439 2007
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/002339.pdf
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